PluginBoss

This is an application to enable better management of Cinema 4D plugins.
If you’re like me, you have a lot of plugins which you’ve accumulated over the years.

However, you probably don’t use all of them all the time. In fact, some of them you probably don’t use at all except for specific projects when you really need them. But you keep them all loaded, just in case you need them.

The problem is that having a lot of loaded plugins makes C4D slower to load, utilises memory you might need for your scene, and maybe makes Cinema less stable than it normally is. Ideally, we’d all like to be able to load and unload plugins from within C4D itself, but the plugin architecture apparently makes that impossible. So if you want to ensure that Cinema will (or will not) load a particular plugin, you have to exit Cinema then either rename the plugin files so that Cinema will or will not recognise the plugin, or move the folder containing the plugin into or out of the plugins folder. Either way, it’s time consuming and boring, so you probably don’t do it... which either means that you have a lot of usually unneeded plugins loaded, or perhaps you never load the plugins you may have paid good money for.

Plugin Boss changes that. It can’t get around the problem of having to quit and restart Cinema but it does make the activation and deactivation of plugins easier.